I purchased a Bellus angel from a LFS on Thanksgiving day. I made sure the fish was eating in the store (and it did very well.)
At home it ate the first day - especially live black worms, but later that day and ever since, it hasn’t eaten.
The fish would look like it’s bouncing up and down from the surface of the water.
I already dosed prazipro and metro (higher dosed) this morning. I put extra metro because I had a gut feeling it was uronema. When I came home from work I saw no improvements in the way the fish swam. I decided to do a gill scrape and uronema was found, although a mild case in the gills, but I think it would be higher in a different spot?
I decided to do a formalin bath treatment in hopes to knock back some uronema until the metro will take affect. I didn’t understand why this fish was bouncing and trying to breathe dry air. I have a lot of aeration and parameters were perfect.
The fish handled the bath treatment ok. It stayed near the surface of the water while my other angel was on the bottom. I put 3.2ml of formeldahyde 37% in 5 gallons of freshly made RODI saltwater. Aerating very very very vigorously. I placed the fish in the bath for 1 hour.
Back in the tank the fish was still floating around and breathing VERY heavily. Then after a few minutes it looked dead on the tank bottom. I thought it was dead and tried to remove it but it sprung back alive and kept swimming and bouncing near the surface and spitting water out of its mouth like a whale with a blowhole.
I left for 2/3 hours and came back to the fish sitting on the bottom. It looks like this has more life to it than before. The gills look slightly red and inflamed. I personally don’t think it’s going to make it by tomorrow, but there’s a part of me that thinks it will. I’m like 90% sure it will be dead when I wake.
Why is the fish breathing so weird? Why is he bouncing up and down when he swims? At this point, I think this fish is a goner, but I would at least like to understand what went wrong and if it was preventable in any way?
I purchased this fish yesterday.
At home it ate the first day - especially live black worms, but later that day and ever since, it hasn’t eaten.
The fish would look like it’s bouncing up and down from the surface of the water.
I already dosed prazipro and metro (higher dosed) this morning. I put extra metro because I had a gut feeling it was uronema. When I came home from work I saw no improvements in the way the fish swam. I decided to do a gill scrape and uronema was found, although a mild case in the gills, but I think it would be higher in a different spot?
I decided to do a formalin bath treatment in hopes to knock back some uronema until the metro will take affect. I didn’t understand why this fish was bouncing and trying to breathe dry air. I have a lot of aeration and parameters were perfect.
The fish handled the bath treatment ok. It stayed near the surface of the water while my other angel was on the bottom. I put 3.2ml of formeldahyde 37% in 5 gallons of freshly made RODI saltwater. Aerating very very very vigorously. I placed the fish in the bath for 1 hour.
Back in the tank the fish was still floating around and breathing VERY heavily. Then after a few minutes it looked dead on the tank bottom. I thought it was dead and tried to remove it but it sprung back alive and kept swimming and bouncing near the surface and spitting water out of its mouth like a whale with a blowhole.
I left for 2/3 hours and came back to the fish sitting on the bottom. It looks like this has more life to it than before. The gills look slightly red and inflamed. I personally don’t think it’s going to make it by tomorrow, but there’s a part of me that thinks it will. I’m like 90% sure it will be dead when I wake.
Why is the fish breathing so weird? Why is he bouncing up and down when he swims? At this point, I think this fish is a goner, but I would at least like to understand what went wrong and if it was preventable in any way?
I purchased this fish yesterday.